Madagascar was good. It’s not the best 3d animated film of recent times (I think Ice Age is brilliant) but it’s worth seeing. I like those military penguins, lol
Well, we didnt’ win ‘best dressed desk’ – I even finished my spoon guy just in time (I used rolled up envelopes for thick chunky legs and made him hold a spoon and fork,lol) – but the prize went to my friend in the Suspense accounts team as they’d set up a Santa’s Grotto and he was Santa, lol
We had our Christmas lunch – it was just a Chinese buffet but I didn’t manage to eat alot – I think my stomach is shrinking because I eat so little these days:-S
Spanish class was good – everyone brought lots of food: I brought a variety pack of biscuits, Dorritos and two Salsa dips, a box of Cadbury’s Roses (chocolates), and some Tunnock’s Tea Cakes (Chocolate covered biscuit and cream things) – but no-one brought any drink as we all thought someone else was bringing the drink, lol
Anyway, the guy from the Thursday class went to an Off-License (Liquor store) and got a couple of bottles of white wine that him and I drank most of as all the rest were driving, lol. I gave Carlos (My tutor) a Christmas card and he was pleased I had written it in Spanish:
Feliz Navidad y prospero ano nuevo – Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year
He gave us a poem he had written in Spanish about Edinburgh. It’s very good although some of the translation that his friend did differs from what he said about it.
We also listened to a tune on a cd by one of his friends – his friend wrote a song about the Chilean Carlos, his Italian wife and their new Scottish son. Carlos was on the cd playing the guitar music throughout that song. It was really good.
We also watched 20mins of a famous film about a famous group of musicians – a man from Cuba had brought together all these old musicians (In their Eighties most of them) and they started a band that turned out to be very successful – the film was Buena Vista Social Club.
Meeting Soul tomorrow to exchange gifts – we will probably go see King Kong at the cinema which I wasn’t bothered about in the beginning as I liked the original, but i’m actually quite excited about it now.
Turns out our Secret Santa thing is on Thursday so I have to wait until then to find out what I got – probably something crazy fi the person knows me – and also spy on my recipient to see if she likes her gift, lol
I’ll finish for now. I’ve been messing about with a few ideas and projects but i’ll say more about that when I have something to show for it. I’m such a hopeless dreamer…
